1. After Adam Smith: prologue -- Pt. I. Adam Smith's Science of the Legislator. 2. An excessive solicitude for posthumous reputation. 3. The secret concatenation. 4. The wisdom of Solon -- Pt. II. Adam Smith, Edmund Burke and Factious Citizens. 5. Contested affinities. 6. The loss of regal government. 7. Burke's creed: politics, chivalry and superstition. 8. The labouring poor -- Pt. III. Robert Malthus as Political Moralist. 9. Imminence and immediacy: initial bearings. 10. New and extraordinary lights. 11. Rather a matter of feeling than argument. 12. A manufacturing animal: things not persons? 13. The bountiful gift of Providence. 14. Last things and other legacies. 15. Epilogue